Quotes from Neil Armstrong

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Houston, uh, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Liftoff! We have a liftoff...

One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.